Dr Julia Laite
Lecturer
Dept of History, Classics and Archaeology
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Julia Laite came to Birkbeck in 2009 after holding a postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University and Memorial University of Newfoundland. She an editor for History Workshop Journal and a Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Research Interest
Women’s history, The history of sexuality, and the history of migration in Britain and the British world
Publications
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‘Taking Nellie Johnson’s Fingerprints: Prostitutes and Legal Identity in Early Twentieth Century London,’ History Workshop Journal 65, 1 (2008) 96-116
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‘Historical Perspectives on Mining, Industrial Development, and Prostitution,’ Historical Journal 52, 3 (2009) 739-761
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‘Conference Report: Identifying the Person, Past and Present, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, September 2009’, co-authored with Gayle Lonergan and James Brown, History Workshop Journal 69, 1 (2010) 278-283
